Sunday, January 29, 2012

Last Sunday and Tuesday, I posted projects featuring various elements from our new 11070SC Songbird Clear Set:

Thank you for your very kind feedback about the stamp set, as well as the awesome projects created by Karen and Trudy. I'm hoping you'll also enjoy Karen's gorgeous card made with the same set:

Karen had mentioned previously that one of her favorite current techniques is stamping on plastic. I love how her songbird overlay allows the sheet music to show from underneath:

Adorned with lots of inked layers and bling in several spots, this card is a feast for the eyes. It's been such a pleasure showing you Karen's work over the past several weeks, and we sure appreciate her sharing her talent with us as our guest designer for January.

Please join me in recognizing Karen's work, and you'll be entered in a little BLOG CANDY giveaway! On Thursday, February 2nd, I'll randomly choose the winner for the same clear set that Karen used above and post that person's name...so please check back to see if you've won!

Friday, January 27, 2012

For my Christmas present, Steve got me an iPhone. Yep, we've drunk the Kool-Aid...and most of the time it's pretty good!

One of the quirks that has taking some getting used to, however, is the auto-correct feature. I realize it can be turned off, but usually it's fairly helpful. Every once in a while, however, I've ended up creating some funny typos.

I've never saved any of my unusual messages, but I did find several hilarious exchanges that resulted from auto-correct accidents. (They're from this website, which also has tons of examples that are side-splittingly funny but definitely too risque for our PG-rated Inky blog.)

One of my all-time favorite movies is Silence of the Lambs, so I really liked this one:

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

On Sunday, I mentioned I'd have a little preview for you today. As you may know, the CHA trade show starts next week, so we'll be giving you sneak peeks of our new spring releases in the upcoming days. Get ready, ladies...we've got LOTS to show you, and it will all be available on the main Inky site at the start of February!

Remember how Karen Taylor used that Psalm on her butterfly tag? Here's the set it came from, 11070SC Songbird Clear Set:

It's part of the Divine Reflections collection, drawn by our friend Darby New. (You may have seen Darby demo at one of our convention booths. She's most often at the Art Gone Wild! booth and has worked with Michelle since "way back when.")

The images in this collection are heavily stippled, which lends itself nicely to the coloring technique used in this card:

I colored directly on the stamp with waterbased markers, lightly misted it with water, and stamped onto the cardstock. A little ribbon and matting completed this nice, simple card.

Of course, if you add a few more embellishments, you can really jazz things up, as Trudy Sjolander did in her beautiful project:

By inking the edges of her image panel, Trudy gave it a fantastic punch of color. Her bow is perfectly tied, which you can easily do with the Bow-Easy).

Also, I love how she tore the patterned paper to reveal the corrugated base underneath. It adds such movement and texture, don't you think? The difference really is in the details!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

When we introduced Karen Taylor as our January Guest Designer earlier this month, she'd used 11014SC Brushed Calligraphy #3 Clear Set for her first project:

This week, she took a different route with the same butterfly images (1615B and 1524F in the wood mounted versions) and created an amazing tag:

As with Karen's other projects, there are so many wonderful details. Here's a closeup so you can see more of them:

The butterflies were stamped on kraft paper, heat embossed with powder, and watercolored. Then Karen layered the pieces for dimension and added pearls down the center.

I love how she also stamped over the paper flower petals using the butterfly sentiment from that set. She also inked the edges of every piece before adhering to the tag to give it a "pop" of color, as well as vintage appeal.

The rhinestone frame at the bottom is Want2Scrap's Nestaboard shape (based on Spellbinders' Fancy Tags Two) and coordinating Nestabling. And did you notice the saying? Yep, that's a new Inky stamp!

It's from one of the many sets we'll be launching at the CHA trade show next week. Curious to find out more? I'll have a "full" sneak peek for you this Tuesday...so please check back with us in just a couple of days!

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